The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A JUNK MAN at Bushnell found two boys play
ing with a cast-iron globe about the size of
base ball. 1t proved TO be an unexpected CAMS
ter bomb.
Isaac JEANS. a Philadelphia Quaker, who has
made fortune of So, 900 900 as fruit importer;
began his business career by selling oranges ana
apples at retail.
The art of paper making has reached point
where growing tree may be cut down, made
into paper and turned out as a newspaper, al
within thrty-siX hours.
THE Chinese have struck a new industry on
the San Joachim river California They gather
heaps of musses, and find a few small pearls
in the sand where the mussels are lett 10 decay
BERLIN is unusually full of Americans this
season. although the university is not yet open
and musical work is scarcely begun. The city
is becoming more and more resort for Amerl-
cans.
Two AMERICANS, James Lynch and John
Ayaya have discovered rich gold fields on the
banks of the river Cielo Aguina, in the Songo
district, Bolivia, so papers from that section an
nOunce.
VERDI is credited with the intention of COM
posing an opera having for title Romeo and
Juliet which is to be first performed in 1852 on
the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary OF the
representation of his first work
THE formation of a wealthy tea shipping COM
pany is reported by Japan papers TO be under
consideration in that country. The idea is to
export tea in large quantities to the United
States and Europe and to open up branch offices
or agencies in both countries.
In the eight months from Dec. 1, 1886, to Aug
T. 1887, the United States Supreme Court and
the highest appellate courts of all the States
and Territories together rendered s, 325 decisions
in most of which opinions were written.
CrcrrIAN bac ipvaDt.d a toatbod Inv which
cremation is accomplished by means of electric
ity. 1t requires dynamo like those employed
for arc lights. 1t is stated that the effect OF
the intense heat is to vaporize the entire BODY
SIR CHARLES MoRDAuNT shot thirty stays in
five successive days in Glenfeshie forest, lnver-
nesshire and in Mar forest. which marches
with Glenfeshie, Lord Fife shot ten in one day.
In Gruinard forest, Rosshire, Miss Barring shot a
stag of seventeen stone, which she got by fair
stalking.
DR. SNoNcK HURGRoNJE, Dutch adventurer,
has not only visited Mecca, but stayed in the
Holy City six months, remaining there after the
pilgrims had left. He travelled on foot as a
Mohammedan offendi and would have escaped
detection but for the indiscretion of the French
Vice Consul at Jeddah.
THE English army nominally consists of 211,-
474 officers and men, but it is said that only one
army corps can actually be put in the field and
that only by frantic makeshift. OF the 71,S1O
officers and men stationed in England, 1t is al
legged that $4,000 are boys under 10, and that
10000 more are under 20.
In 1882 Georgia had twelve national banks
and twenty-six State banks, with total capital
of S12,S55,OO0 Besides these there were thirty
eight private banks in the State. Now Georgia
has twenty national banks and twentY-eight
State banks with an aggregate capital of
S19,031 600 There are now forty nine private
banks in Georgia.
A PHILADELPHIA BRIDAL DRESS is of cream
satin, the back a straight long train, kept up by
def arrangement of petticoats and thick rucbes
of silk. The front is covered with a fine lace
scarf, the two ends parallel with the edge of the
skirt and the double portion at the top being
carried ON to the bodice the whole making a
| soft and graceful drapery.
LIEUT.. HovGAARD, the Arctic traveller who
| made the Northeast passage with Nordensk-
| jold is already preparing for his expedition to
| East Greenland next summer. His ambitious
purpose is if possible, to complete the eXplora-
| ton of the northeast coast join his discoveries
with those of Lockwood, and thus finally de-
| termine the outlines and extent of the great
| island.
TWENTY YEARS AGO the Great Architect of the
| Universe was erased from the statutes of the
French Freemasons. A grand convocation is
now in session in Paris debating whsther it
should not be restored, inasmuch as its omission
| has the effect of isoatihg the Grand Orient
| from the brethren of other countries and with
| drawing it from the universal church of Free
masonry.
The GAR, according to an English CORE
| spondent who has jest seen him at Fredensborg,
| is looking wonderfully we'll and is in excellent
spirits, having quite recovered from his recent
rheumatic attack. The CZarina, however, seems
| far from well, her sisters continued illness and
| the perpetual anxiety respecting the Cars life
| having given her careworn and restless APP
pearance.
AN ANIMAL with the head and tail of an all ga
| tor and the back and claws of tortoise is on
| exhibition at the store of George Hulse, a Liv-
| erpoo importer of turtles. 1t is called au ali-
| gator tortoise. and was captured by an English
| sailor in the swamps near New Orleans The
| English naturalstS have never seen anything
like it before, and are trying to buy it for pub
| lie museum.
| WoDEHoUsE LEIGH, member Parliament going
on an excursion to the Monastery of Rilo near
| SamaAotf, Bulgaria. Stroled little distance
away from the buildings and was captured by
| brigahds who stole all he had and demanded a
ransom for his life. He pretended the deepest
| distress because be was the servant of a stfngy
master who would rather have him shot than
pay anything for his life, and the brigands let
him go.
WHILE the manager of an electric-lighting
| station was showing some visitors about the
station new man passed on the other side of q
| dynamo WlJn Il uuSbpHn IuIl OF SWeellDSsS.
| Suddenly, with deXterous turn of the wrist,
| he threw the contents over the party and as the
| honest German laborer threw mp his hands i'll
astonishment the magnetic attraction com
| pleted its work drawing the dust pan com
| pletely out of his hands, and it became trans
| fixed to the field magnets.
LoRIN A. LATHRoP United States Consul at
| Bristol, has been trying to get statement of
| the material wealth of the United Kingdom.
and finds it given In the Treasury reports at
S45 800 600 600. but thinks that far as the real
| estate is concerned, the estimates are greatly
! overdrawn The estimate of the personal prop
| erty is more accurate, as the Income Tax Col
| lectOrS ascertain the amounts pretty closely.
| The returns from investments in foreign and
| colonial stocks amount to $1,000 900 a year
and Consul Lathrop remarks that these returns
| show how the big balance of trade against Eng
| land annually is corrected.
THE English Registrar General has made a
comparison between healthy and unhealthy
occupations. Assuming the normal average
death rate of the community as the unit of com
pariSon. and calling it 900, the most healt by
| occupation appears TO be that of ministers of
| religion, whose rate is 500. The most unhealthy
occupations are the trades connected with the
| liquor traffic and motel service. with which the
| death rate is 2,205. After the trades concerned
with alcohol, the highest rates are furnished Inv
| occupations that involve the breathing of dust
| other than coal husband exposure to lead
poisoning. The death rate among butchers is
also high, 1,170.
CORRESPONDENT, after picturing the SIM
plcity Of the life at Balmoral during the